All 101 Things to Love About Alabama

Catch up on all the wonderful wacky things about our state.

By CB969, Erik Evans, and Brent C. Taylor Aug 24, 2019, 8:01am CDT

If you missed any of the “Things to Love About Alabama” series that Brent, Erik and CB did, we have them all for you here. We had a fun time sharing them with you and enjoyed your comments of experiences with many of them.

So, next time you’re sitting at home with nothing to do, pack up the car and go visit this great state of ours.

1 Thing to Love About Alabama: Ground zero of a movement that changed the fabric of the world

2 Things to Love About Alabama: Justice Hugo Black — “the most remarkable Justice of the 20th century”

3 Things to Love About Alabama: Sequoyah — The father of indigenous literacy

4 Things to Love About Alabama: The Air War College at Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base

5 Things to Love About Alabama: “Sweet Home...” — America’s complicated, misunderstood homecoming anthem

6 Things to Love About Alabama: The indelible stamp of African and Caribbean culture

7 Things to Love about Alabama: Jason Isbell — This generation’s great American wordsmith

8 Things to Love About Alabama: Julio Jones Signs With the Crimson Tide

9 Things to Love About Alabama: The Heisman Winners

12, 11, and 10 Things to Love About Alabama — The Helen Keller trilogy

13 Things to Love About Alabama: To Kill a Mockingbird — the greatest American novel

14 Things to Love About Alabama: Nick Saban - More Than Just A Coach

15 Things to love about Alabama: All of the state symbols

16 Things to love about Alabama: The Drive

17 Things to Love About Alabama: The Tuskegee Golden Age changed American history

18 Things to Love About Alabama: Sugah, the Luv Guv kept us laughing and cringing

19 Things to Love About Alabama: ...Alabama

20 Things to Love About Alabama: The Tuskegee Airmen

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22 Things to love about Alabama: Mia Hamm

23 Things to Love About Alabama: A world-class health care industry

24 Things to Love About Alabama: Paul W. Bryant Museum

25 Things to Love About Alabama: No better place for world-class bass fishing

26 Things to Love About Alabama: Where Legends are Made — 2nd and 26

27 Things to love about Alabama: The McWane Center

28 Things to Love About Alabama: DAH-LING — the larger-than-life Tallulah Bankhead

29 Things to Love About Alabama: Revenge

30 Things to Love About Alabama: Goldie 1971 - The Fallen Robot

31 Things to love about Alabama: Unclaimed Baggage

32 Things to Love About Alabama: Julia Tutwiler — the tireless reformer

33 Things to Love About Alabama: The Alabama State Archives — the oldest in the country

34 Things to Love About Alabama: Joe Louis — America’s first black national hero

35 Things to Love About Alabama: The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail

36 Things to Love About Alabama: Heather Whitestone — the hardest working Miss America

37 Things to love about Alabama: T.J. Yeldon makes a man miss

38 Things to love about Alabama: The Van De Graaff Generator

39 Things to Love About Alabama: What is a Yellowhammer?

40 Things to Love About Alabama: Church With a Rock In It

41 Things to Love About Alabama: Point Mallard

42 Things to Love About Alabama: The legendary Hank Aaron

43 Things to Love About Alabama: The Siege of Bridgeport and the Battle of Fort Blakeley reenactments

44 Things to Love About Alabama: All those flags in Alabama — a brief history

45 Things to Love About Alabama: The Town of Spectre from “Big Fish”

46 Things to love about Alabama: Javier Arenas

47 Thing to Love About Alabama: The Magic City Classic

48-51 was Fourth of July weekend. For that quartet, just think about the four touchdowns Tua threw against Tennessee last season. If you can’t handle that, #refunds are on the way via Airborne Express. Please post your AE account numbers.

52 Things to Love About Alabama: Eggbeater Jesus, Huntsville

53 Things to Love About Alabama: Hank Williams — Country music’s first super star

54 Things to Love About Alabama: “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”

55 Things to Love About Alabama: The Flora-Bama — America’s last great honky-tonk roadhouse

56 Things to love about Alabama: Sloss Furnace

57 Things to Love About Alabama: Butch Anthony’s Museum of Wonder

58 Things to love about Alabama: Chilton County Peaches

59 Things to Love About Alabama: The Crichton Leprechaun

60 Things to Love About Alabama: A very haunted place...

61 Things to Love About Alabama: Kathryn Tucker Windham — the grand dame of storytellers

62 Things to Love...: Almost no one we remember from the historic Rocky Block was actually from Alabama

63 Things to Love About Alabama: “There was no safe way to test the squirrel for meth.”